- Narrative art:art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story, or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. In narrative art, the artist chooses how to portray the story, represent the space, and how to shape time within the artwork. Narrative art can be categorized into various types, also known as modes or styles. A piece of artwork is not limited to only one type of narrative. Formal elements would be that it contains a story, or recognizable figure that can be read easily. Most often narrative art has figurative elements.
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| Laocoön and His Sons, 1st century BC or AD, attributed to Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus |
- Non-narrative art: Art that has a conscious attempt to reject the assumption that art should be didactic and rational. Formal elements would include no visible narration within the piece, usually abstract work, and usually trying to create experience. The American painter Mark Rothko created abstract paintings of ambiguously muted color. He steadfastly refused to interpret them or suggest any story line or moral. He felt that a direct experience of the painting was far superior to a rational explanation.
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| No. 61 (Rust and Blue), Mark Rothko, 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm (45 in × 36 in). |
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- Figuration: describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—that is clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational. "Figurative art" is often defined in contrast to abstract art: "Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used
to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the
real world." Figurative art is not synonymous with "art that represents the human
figure," although human and animal figures are frequent subjects.
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| Bourgoin Skydoll by Mikaël Bourgouin |
- Abstraction: abstract art is derived from a figurative or other natural source.
However, "abstract" is sometimes used as a synonym for
non-representational art and non-objective art, i.e. art which has no
derivation from figures or objects. Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world, and by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality.
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| Dorit Ruff, Medium: Acrylic, Mixed Media |
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